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In his most recent book, Stolen Focus: Why You Can’t Pay Attention – and How to Think Deeply Again, New York Times best-selling author, Johann Hari, presents an engaging book detailing the reasons so many of us are constantly distracted during our daily life. He discusses the myth of multitasking,
Interested in gender studies? Want to learn more about international activism in support of LGBTQ+ rights? Curious about the changing definition of obscenity through history? If so, then DePaul’s newly acquired Archives of Sexuality and Gender is what you’ve been looking for! We are happy to announce that the DePaul
Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family presents the Galvin family, a married couple with twelve children. The oldest child was 20 years older than the youngest, with 10 boys and 2 girls. Eventually six of the sons would be diagnosed with schizophrenia. Award-winning journalist Robert Kolker
Want better results from LibrarySearch? Join us for a faculty workshop on using the DePaul University Library’s new search tool and learn how to take advantage of the system’s capabilities to efficiently find the materials you need. The Zoom workshop will be held twice, and a recording will be available
A great read for celebrating Women’s History Month this March is Circe, by author Madeline Miller. Best selling author Miller tells the story of Circe, a witch from Homer’s Odyssey, and re-imagines the story of this relatively minor character. In this novel, Circe lives an unhappy life. Although she is an
Are you a first-year student who wants to show off your library research skills? If so, you should apply for the First-Year Writing Program Library Research Prize! The DePaul University Library is now accepting applications for the Library Research Prize in conjunction with the First-Year Program Writing Showcase. Current DePaul
Author Bina Venkataram’s stellar credentials include teaching in the program on Science, Technology, and Society at MIT, working as a journalist for The New York Times and the Boston Globe, and serving as a senior adviser for climate change innovation in the Obama White House. In this book, she unpacks
On Wednesday May 22, the library celebrated three winners of the 2019 Library Research Prize during the annual First Year Program Writing Showcase. The winners were, Deyana Atanasova, for the essay “Spiraling Slacktivism,” Danielle Comp, for “You Can’t Deny Suffering: An Argument for the Existence of Chronic Lyme Disease,” and Kacie
This fascinating story of the rise and fall of Theranos was recently made into a movie for HBO: The Inventor: Out For Blood in Silicon Valley. Theranos is the Silicon Valley start-up that set out to revolutionize medicine. Elizabeth Holmes, the brilliant, charismatic CEO, promised to reinvent the way patients
Shortlisted for the National Book Award last year, Rebecca Makkai’s The Great Believers tells a story of devastation and loss in Chicago during the AIDS epidemic of the 1980s. Interwoven with this narrative is a connected story set in modern day Paris, as a woman in her 50s, Fiona, searches for